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Fusun Wehrmann - Diving Into Supply Chain

The challenges of creating dynamic, global Supply Chain systems for hundreds of thousands of small and large parcel items is not for everybody! In this video, Füsun Wehrmann explains her story discovering Wayfair and diving into the world of Supply Chain. She explains the challenges her team faces and where she sees the future of Supply Chain going.

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Jira (Projecthub) on Kubernetes

In the last decade, Wayfair relied heavily on its homegrown ticketing system for its Engineering, Product, and Operational needs. Starting Q1 2020, Wayfair decided to standardize on Projecthub (Atlassian Jira) thus enabling a range of powerful features, all unified under one single platform. Containerized Jira environment is a relatively fresh practice in the industry and we had to break new ground in customizing Jira’s Docker image to fit our needs. Another learning exercise was the deployment of this third-party application as a Stateful set on our on-prem k8s cluster.

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Augmented Reality with a Purpose

Augmented reality (AR) is most well known for its use in mobile games, which encourage users to find virtual objects hidden in the world around them. At Wayfair, we leverage AR beyond pure entertainment to provide value for our shoppers. AR lets shoppers answer important questions like, “Will this item fit in my space?” With AR, virtual 3D versions of products can be seen in a customer’s actual space at true-to-life scale using technology that’s already in their pocket – their smartphone.

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A Product Journey from Local to Global Ownership

In today’s fast moving e-commerce industry, customers want control and convenience for receiving their deliveries. This key customer need and insight led to the creation and launch of the Wayfair Delivery Network, our very own proprietary large parcel delivery service.

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Case Study: How We Decreased the Size of our Python Docker Images by over 50%

The Python Platform Team at Wayfair maintains a collection of base Docker images used by all deployed Python applications. Maintaining these base images provides us with the ability to:

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Shot Angle Prediction: Estimating Pose Angle with Deep Learning for Furniture Items Using Images Generated from 3D Models

‘First impressions matter’.

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Thoughts on Dependency Management at Wayfair

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What is Auxiliary Engineering?

If you work in software, this might sound familiar to you: an engineering team has been tasked with designing and building a large, highly visible product or system from the ground up. The team is mostly made up of newer engineers with less institutional knowledge, and the tech lead doesn't have much experience in this particular domain. However, there's a senior engineer with domain knowledge and some temporary availability. What's the most effective way they can help?

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Cut Costs and Build Your Own Network Intelligence

Have you ever wanted to be able to simply switch between Internet Service Providers (ISP) dynamically based on network path reliability? Many network engineers will answer yes. This is a common ask in environments of any size.